Entry level experience required, but low pay - BHT-behavioral Health Tech Friendship House Employee Review

Working at Friendship House has been a highly positive experience that has supported me in improving clinical skills with children/families, overall professional development, and leadership skills. I was able to pursue supervision that allowed me to become a board certified art therapist and licensed in the state of Pennsylvania. Throughout the last 4 years at Friendship House, I've never felt as though I was falling through the cracks, unimportant, or just a name/number at the company.

Any down-sides I have faced in this position have been more related to broader difficulties in the non-profit mental health, educational, and social services agencies in this area rather than Friendship House.

Pay rate is pretty good and the hours you work are definitely ideal.

Ha! Where do I begin? They train you as a legally obligated mandated reporter but if you have a genuine concern, don't tell them you are reporting it. They think you have to go to a supervisor first and they get to decide whether it gets reported although they don't spend a quarter of the time with the children as you do. It is such a joke. It's a money-making scheme basically. The children's well-being is not what comes first. God forbid you report something about a child in need and they potentially lose the money for that child everyday. That's really all that matters.